How are you both doing with that bizarre - and somewhat embarrassing - challenge of trying to fill AAMI Stadium on Sunday evening? Come up with a theme yet?

Strange, isn't it? As a wise soul noted this week, we can get South Australians together at West Lakes to watch a State-of-Origin game against the Victorians.

But when it comes to the match that replaced this battle as the premier event on the SA football calendar - the Showdowns - they won't even share a bus to AAMI Stadium.

Kochie, you want 40,000 members for the first time in your club's history. It is a great ambition.

Keep in mind your tribe (with the help of Crows fans) has not put a number of 40,000-plus on the AAMI Stadium crowd counter (which seems very wonky these days) since you hosted a Showdown in 2009.

Their reasons for abandoning the team at AAMI Stadium are cringeworthy.

Rob, your club promotes itself as "The Team For All South Australians", has research to declare it has a 60 per cent hold on the South Australian market and thousands of fans who say they just can't get into AAMI Stadium because of your sold-out membership count.

Yet when there are heaps of tickets to a Showdown - albeit one where the Crows wear white shorts as the away team - they stay at home.

But to a more pressing matter. The honour roll for the Showdowns reveals a glaring gap in the history of SA's biggest football game.

The Showdown Medal, awarded to the best afield, was not presented in the first six derbies from 1997-99.

The first was won by Adelaide great Mark Ricciuto in 2000. It was the first of his three Showdown Medals.

Surely we can correct this, just as the AFL has with retrospective Brownlow Medals. In an era of billion-dollar spending in Australian football, there cannot be a cost issue in striking six medals.

Your challenge is deciding how to choose the winners.

Do you opt for the umpires' call by checking which player scored the best-on-ground three votes for the Brownlow Medal in these six Showdowns?